Janyce Denise Glasper bids a fond farewell to Artblog. The artist and writer has been part of the Artblog team for eight years, and in that time has written 22 reviews and features that have expanded enormously our coverage of Black women artists and creatives.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper writes about the large career retrospective of Vivian Browne, a leading figure during the activist ’60s and ’70s who is now less well known but should be.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper sees the debut film of artist Titus Kaphar and says it deserves “endless praise.”
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper reviews the series, ‘Queenie,’ streaming on Hulu, noting that she learned some welcome history about African-British and African-Caribbean women whose stories she had not known and are not routinely told in history books.
Read MoreJanyce talks with the late Betty Blayton’s younger brother, Oscar, who is working with the artist’s archive and shares much of Betty’s history of an artist in New York from 1960-2016, where she was friends with many Black artists and founding director of the Harlem-based Children’s Art Carnival.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper talks with three of her former teachers or mentors at PAFA to get their reaction to the recent changes the school made to its curriculum.
Read MoreJanyce Glasper reads a book she calls “unputdownable.” The book is a novel and its story, set in Italy, compares the lives of a Victorian-era Black artist (lightly based on that of Edmonia Lewis), and a contemporary Somali artist researching the earlier artist’s life.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper’s trip to Miami’s Art Basel and the allied fairs, Untitled and Prizm was lightning fast and filled with eye treats. Janyce highlights examples of diversity in the fairs.
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